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Subject: *1st DRAFT* XLIFF TC Charter Clarification
Hi all: We need dates assigned to the deliverables. Anyone care to take a stab at that? > Let me know what you think... Regards,
The charter for this TC is as follows. Name XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) Statement of Purpose The purpose of the OASIS XLIFF TC is to define, through XML vocabularies, and promote the adoption of, an extensible specification for the interchange of localization information. To date, the committee has published two specifications - XLIFF 1.0 and XLIFF 1.1 - that define how to mark up and capture localizable data and interoperate with different processes or phases without loss of information. The vocabularies are tool-neutral, support the localization-related aspects of internationalization and the entire localization process. The vocabularies support common software and content data formats. The specifications provide an extensibility mechanism to allow the development of tools compatible with an implementer's own proprietary data formats and workflow requirements. The state of affairs in software localisation before XLIFF was that
a software provider delivered their localisable resources to a
localisation service provider in a number of disparate file formats.
Once software providers commenced implementing XLIFF, the task of
interchanging localisation data became simpler. Using proprietary and
nonstandard resource formats force either the software provider or the
localisation service provider to implement a costly and inefficient
bespoke process for localising their content. For a software publishers
with many proprietary or nonstandard formats, this requirement becomes
a major hurdle when attempting to localise their software. For
software developers employing enterprise localisation tools and
processes, XLIFF defines a standard but extensible vocabulary that
captures relevant metadata at any point of the lifecycle which can be
exchanged between a variety of commercial and open-source tools. >The OASIS XLIFF TC concluded a 45 day public review from 11 Aug and ended 24 September 2003. The TC revised and then approved a Committee Specification based on the comments received, publishing the XLIFF 1.1 Committee Specification and XLIFF 1.1 XSD schema.. All public comments submitted were resolved, and a report of all public review activity is publicly available. XLIFF is based on initial work done by the Yahoo! DataDefinition
Group. That group published a white paper, a specification and a DTD,
which were made public through that group's site. The XLIFF 1.0
specification was approved as Committee Specification by the XLIFF TC
in April 2002. XLIFF 1.0 was submitted with the following intellectual property rights statement: Each of the submitting companies, referenced in section (vii), below, agrees to offer a license, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, to use any patent claim it owns or controls and which is necessarily infringed by use of the XLIFF format described in this submission or any Committee Specification or OASIS standard based thereon. Such a license will be for the limited purpose of implementing the XLIFF format described in this submission or in any Committee Specification or OASIS standard based thereon, and may be conditioned on the licensee's agreement to grant a reciprocal license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to use any patent claim it owns or controls and which is necessarily infringed by use of the XLIFF format described in this submission or in any Committee Specification or OASIS standard based thereon. The archive for previous discussions can be found at the following URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DataDefinition The white paper, the specification, and the DTD and can be found at this URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DataDefinition/files/Final List of Deliverables
-- Tony Jewtushenko Principal Product Manager - Oracle Application Development Tools Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:tony.jewtushenko@oracle.com Direct tel: +353.1.8039080 |
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